Idris Ackamoor

Idris Ackamoor (born Bruce Baker, January 9, 1951)[1] is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, actor, tap dancer, producer, administrator, and director.[2] Ackamoor is also artistic director of the world music/jazz ensemble The Pyramids.[3]

Idris Ackamoor
Background information
Birth nameBruce Baker
Born (1951-01-09) January 9, 1951
Chicago, Illinois, US
OriginYellow Springs, Ohio
GenresJazz
Associated actsThe Pyramids

The Pyramids

He founded the band The Pyramids in the early 1970s at Antioch College in Ohio as part of Cecil Taylor's Black Music Ensemble.[4] The band toured Africa in the 1970s, adding musicians and new instruments, before returning to the US and settling in San Francisco.[4] Self-releases, Lalibela (1973), King Of Kings (1974), and Birth / Speed / Merging (1976) explored the concept, increasingly more realized than the last. All three had very limited runs, being sold only at concerts out of the trunks of their cars.[5]

The band split up in 1977, but Ackamoor has reformed the Pyramids on several occasions.[4] Strut Records released new studio albums by the band in the 2010s: We Be All Africans and An Angel Fell.[6][7]

Discography
  • Portrait (1998)
  • Centurian (2000)
  • Homage to Cuba (2004)
  • An Angel Fell (2018)
  • Shaman! (2020)

References
  1. The Pyramids rider, 2013
  2. Rosen, Michael (19 January 2011). "D/B 11+3 Interview with Idris Ackamoor from the Pyramids". Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  3. "Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: An Angel Fell review – stately and lyrical".
  4. "Gallery: the 1970s journey of Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids", Wire, June 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016
  5. https://postgenre.org/ackamoor-shaman/
  6. Denselow, Robin (June 2, 2016). "Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids: We Be All Africans review – Afro-jazz-fusion veterans keep fire burning". The Guardian. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  7. Spencer, Neil (May 13, 2018). "Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: An Angel Fell review – stately and lyrical". The Guardian. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
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